If it flies I must feedIf it swims I must feedIf it runs I must feedIf it wobbles around I must feedIf it tiny I must feedIf it large I must feedWhat is this strange impulse to throw food in the direction of another creature?
>>5048646Translate into English autistic anon.
>>5048646>to throw foodIt took me this long to realize that you weren't talking about eating them
>>5048686The contrast between baby Asian elephants and baby African elephants is really something
>>5048646the human drive to nurture things we perceive as innocent. Comes with being a social creature
>>5048713what about spiders and snakes
>>5048759Most people aren't that drawn to nurture those things and it is often a learned appreciation, not instinctual. You see a small bird and you think "oh I might throw some seed", you don't see a snake and think "oh I might throw a mouse". Most people keep snakes because "they look/feel cool", which is a perfectly fine justification, but you will seldom find someone who keeps snakes because they have a genuine nurturing draw to them. That's not to say you can't be concerned about the wellbeing of a snake, but nurturing something is a different thing to wishing something is free of suffering. Spiders are the same sort of deal. People who feed spiders do so out of amusement. It's closer to like keeping a venus fly trap or some other carnivorous plant but instead of it being in a pot it is in the corner of the bathroom on a bit of web. The only time you will see a "nurturing" angle to people with spiders are with jumping spiders because of their more dorky appearance compared to something like a wolf spider. As a kid I was obsessed with spiders, but it was always down to them being cool and not because I saw them as something loveble. As the venerable Marge Simpson once said:>I just think their neat!
